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NEWPORT NEWS — The 12th and final defendant in a Peninsula cocaine dealing ring will be sentenced in federal court in February, following a drug investigation that began more than two years ago. Francisco Eduardo Casas, 33, of Brownsville, Texas, will be sentenced by U.S. District Judge Raymond A. Jackson, with federal sentencing guidelines recommending he get between 10 years and 12.5 years behind bars. The cocaine crackdown — led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement — has resulted in a total of three indictments against 12 people. All 12 have pleaded guilty, with sentencing outcomes for the 11 other defendants ranging from between 2.5 years to 25 years for...

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NEWPORT NEWS — The 12th and final defendant in a Peninsula cocaine dealing ring will be sentenced in federal court in February, following a drug investigation that began more than two years ago.Francisco Eduardo Casas, 33, of Brownsville, Texas, will be...

Crypto 757, a conference on cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, will discuss bitcoin basics, anti-money laundering and legal perspectives, payment systems, investing and more at the Cavalier Oceanfront Hotel in Virginia Beach Aug. 27-28. The event will have...

Planning a brunch get-together for this Easter? With all of the delicious food that will surely be part of the celebration, it’s a great idea to start the day off on a light note with Slim and Sparkling™ Easter Brunch Cocktails. Traditional brunch...

Supporters of a longtime Iowa City pastor and father of four facing deportation to Honduras for a 17-year-old conviction traveled to Omaha Tuesday to deliver a petition calling for his release. Family, friends and advocates of Max Villatoro stopped in Des...

Diminished local cooperation is putting federal immigration officers in dangerous situations as they track down foreign-born criminals, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials say. They say that more of their officers are out on the streets,...

A daily look at late-breaking news, coming events and stories that will be talked about in Pennsylvania on Monday: STATE POLICE SHOOT MAN WHO WON'T DROP RIFLE Troopers say Samuel Wheeler aimed a rifle at them after threatening to kill a family member with...

A homeless man who was shot to death by police during a Skid Row confrontation over the weekend was identified Thursday under his true name — not the stolen identity he had used for years. Charly Keundeu Keunang, 43, was listed as being indigent and...

Mistakes and miscommunication by three governments on three continents over nearly 20 years led to a homeless man known as "Africa" being on Los Angeles' Skid Row, where he was shot by police after authorities say he became combative and...

MIAMI For years, federal immigration authorities have hailed as an enforcement success the annual growth in deportations of foreign nationals who have been convicted of serious crimes or caught living or working in the United States without...

PHOENIX A transgender Guatemalan asylum-seeker incarcerated at an all-male facility in Florence, Ariz., has been a victim of sexual assault and ill treatment by guards, activists demonstrating for her release said Monday. About 20 people turned...

One lucky person will win two tickets to ICE! at Gaylord Palms thanks to The Orlando Date Night Guide's giveaway.
Gaylord Palms in Kissimmee hosts ICE! each holiday season, decking the resort out in millions of Christmas lights and hauling in more than...

WHAT: The cold front is moving in again at Gaylord Palms resort. ICE!, a 9-degree ice-sculpture exhibit, starts its holiday run Saturday. This year's theme revolves around "The Nutcracker" ballet and comes, naturally, with the original...

In Florida, dreaming of a white Christmas is little more than wishful thinking.
The weather warrants shorts and flip-flops for the majority of the winter season, so the odds of it actually snowing here this year are slim to none.
Native Floridians...

Want to have yourself a merry little Christmas at a Florida resort? No worries: Florida properties are ready for the holiday season with majestic Christmas trees, special decorations and themed activities and attractions.
Here are some to check out:
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The number of immigrants deported from the U.S. fell sharply in the last year, a decline driven by the Obama administration's struggle to handle the surge of Central American migrants and its continuing shift in deciding whom to deport.
The decrease...

Yoselin Ramos had long wanted to trek to the United States to escape the crushing poverty and rising violence in her hometown in Guatemala.
But it wasn't until the 24-year-old heard about a "new opportunity" that she packed a bag and left her...

The two new tunnels discovered this week along the San Diego-Mexico border mark the sixth and seventh cross-border passages that authorities have located in the last four years. Officials have found more than 80 tunnels from California to Arizona since...

My wife, Laurel, and I had laid out an idiosyncratic European itinerary for our trip last fall: to London for theater, to Paris to scout Ernest Hemingway's long-ago haunts, to Friedrichshafen, Germany, for the Zeppelin Museum, and finally to Hamburg to...

Nearly 300 Central American women and children have been deported from family detention centers that opened in the wake of a recent influx of people illegally crossing the Southwest border.
As of Wednesday evening, 280 women and children had been...